[pp.int.general] Flashmob against full body scanners

[Marcus Kesler]

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Not trying to hijack this discussion, but:

What is the opinion of Israel's approach:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/11/yeffet.air.security.israel/index.html

No fancy technology, simply boots on the ground reading people's
reaction. I am tempted to prefer this method over any xrays out there,
but they are still asking lots of questions. But are questions that
might spill over into "privacy" aspects less of an evil than parading
around naked?

Marcus Kesler

Alexander Bock wrote:
> Am 11.01.2010 um 14:49 schrieb <bakel362 at planet.nl> <bakel362 at planet.nl>:
>> Does anyone know whether these scanners use X-ray (R"ontgen)? If they do, they are a health risk, however low the dose is. X-rays are high energy radiation (for thoese not familiar in quantum physics: this is not a matter of the amout of energy in watts: it is entirely determined by the frequency of the radiation - based on Plancks formula). The actual percentage of people contracting cancer because of these scans may be low, but a high number of people multiplied by a low percentrage still is a substantial number of people. A cynical calculation would be to compare that number to the number of potential terrorist attack victims. I guess the latter i lower. But rather I would say: any checking method affecting health is *wrong*. Affecting privacy is bad enough.
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> They are using Terahertz radiation. Very low energy, non-ionizing, somewhere between infrared and microwave. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_radiation
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> Alex
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